Working in an educational culture where academic writing is taught in courses involving different skill levels and purposes and specializations, I had clearly come to assume that that educational approach was necessarily the most effective. The students threw a much-needed monkey wrench in the
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I must admit, Harper's subtle allusion to a new relativism that had snuck into the book publishing world's grammar and style bible at first left me in dismay. Was the keeper of the faith caving to the specter of apostasy? Then I reminded myself of something Ruth Goring, one of the editors of CMOS, once
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Recent examples noted by Finan include President Donald Trump condemning various pieces of journalism as “fake news” more than 150 times during his first year in office and taking the unprecedented step to try to suppress the publication of a book about him (Michael Wolff's White House exposé
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The online publishing platform Medium suspended the accounts of multiple high-profile figures associated with the far-right and “alt-right,” including Mike Cernovich and Laura Loomer, as part of an update to its terms and conditions. Medium's update, conducted earlier this month, stated that the platform
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The Worcester Sun has halted its operations, if only temporarily, according to an email circulating Wednesday morning. After two years in digital form, the print product launched only recently, on Dec. 9. The model was a weekly paper for $2 a week or gratis with a $2 per week digital sub. When the paper
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The wide-wale, wide-leg styles popularized then are still appealing today: The Cords & Co's worldwide best sellers for men and women (called Per and Lea, respectively) have a touch of '70s flair. “Even though corduroy has been around forever, no one really pushed the boundaries with it [as they have
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This is what I can say after recently completing a short creative writing course with The Writing Institute in Lahore. The institute is Pakistan's premier institution for creative writing courses. It is a nationwide program led by Awais Khan who is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and Durham
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Burnette, who has worked for 16 years in South Bend as a teacher/librarian, said she will look to smaller publishers with diverse lists, like Lee & Low Books and Akashic Books, as well as larger publishers that have diversity-specific imprints, though, she said, she looks forward to the day when publishers
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